Are Take That Still Great?: Gary Barlow hits out at The Brit Academy
Filed under: Music, News | By: Emma
Posted on: February 23, 2008 | 40 Comments
It has been reported that Gary Barlow has hit out at the Brit Academy for failing to appreciate Take That. At the award ceremony on Wednesday they won awards for Best Live Act and Best Single, but Barlow is not happy that they only won in categories that were voted for by the public.
“It’s amazing that when the public get to vote we always do well. It’s brilliant. But it gets to me that whenever we have been nominated for other awards we always get overlooked” he said when speaking to The Sun.
The lost out on Best Group and Best Album to the Artic Monkey.
Is this just sour grapes from Gary Barlow and does he need to face the fact that Take That are no longer the group they once were.
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Not only are they still great - probably the greatest!!
They work hard and have achieved so much. There comeback material has been so different but great. They have proved successful in what could be deemed two separate careers
Take That are by far the best group around and thoroughly deserved the two Brits they won. However, they have never been acknowledged by the Brits committee and that’s all Gary was pointing out. The success of their comeback, their two sell out tours and their STILL riding high in the charts album proves they deserve to be recognised in my opinion.
Sour grapes my arse!! The suits needs to just realise what is actually good and whats not!! Artic Monkeys best group, best prats more like!!! TT Rock!!!!!!
He was not in anyway complaining, yet again use of rhetoric when reviewing someones comments. How intelligent of you.He was stating a fact, something that we the great british public have realised for quite a while. The brit panel of so called left wing intellectual twits have yet again patted themselves on the back and awarded the Best Album and Best Group to one of their own. The delightful Artic Monkeys (Arsenic would be a btter title for them as they are a poisonous little group. The one thing all of you need to realise that it’s the great British Buying public who buy the records and they show that by how they vote. The fact that each time TT have won Brit awards we have voted for them, surely that tells record producers and their ilk something!!
The fact that the Artics actually didn’t sell as many albums as TT or the Kaiser Chiefs says a lot to me. Basically if you aren’t angst ridden drug fuelled so called left of centre musicians then you don’t count in the Brit school of thinking. It’s high time the Brits became synonimous with all that is wrong with this world and instead was replaced by British Public awards, they are far more important as they actually buy the records!!
If you had quoted Gary in full he actually went on to say that they are very gratefull for the awards they received. The Brit academy are not so important to them as their fans and thats how it should be. The Brits need to get over their facination with drunken drugged up indie bands. Take That are still very much “the band they once were.” Silly comments that say otherwise have taken no note of record sales and tour ticket sales.
Take That are better than they have ever been, and their popularity was proved by the 2 public votes that they won. I totally agree with Gary’s comments though. The suits are scared of ruining their cool reputation. I think the fact that they knew TT would probably win the public votes would have swayed the judges votes too. They couldn’t let TT steal the show with 4 awards now could they. Best album was very close though, with only a few votes in it. I really think the longer they stay around though, the more credible they will become, and I really believe that if TT release another album later this year, which is as good as Beautiful World, then we may see a pop band finally conquer the stigma of pop music for the first time, and they will finally get the recognition they so truly deserve. Well done lads for your awards this year, and keep up the good work.
Gary was not complaining, he was making a valid point which a lot of people happen to agree with, me included. The Brits seem to be interested in voting for ‘cool’ acts (their own definition of cool that is).
When is the Brits going to live up to it’s name and hand out awards which reflect the British publics views, rather than the views of an elite few. How could the Artics win best album when their sales are so low compared to Take That???? How does that reflect what the British public are thinking?
The Brits have gone right down in my estimation.
Gary is right! The Monkeys didn´t deserve any award they´ve won. The haven´t been thankful for their awards at all! What a luck they aren´t any famous over here in Germany. So I don´t have to listen to their stuff anymore…
This was not a complaint, but statement of FACT!
As usual the Brits have patted themselves on the back for all their good work and awarded Best Group and Best Album to one of their own! Is it possible to not be just a tad disgruntled? After all The artics didn’t sell anywhere near as many albums as TT or other groups that weren’t nominated. Lets face it, those delightful Brit directors couldn’t possibly award the most popular band in Britain now could they? Heaven forbid!
It does not seem to matter a jot to these people that the Great British buying public have yet again voted with their hearts and minds, after all we aren’t important are we? Doesn’t seem to matter than we are the ones who buy their records! The Brit panel are somewhat deluded and self gratifying to say the least, how they must have patted themselves on the back when they chose one of their own, how clever they think they are! Be warned, nepotism has a way of imploding in on itself. Although I for one would be quite happy if the Brits panel disappeared up their own backsides, let’s face it they are half way there already.
Are Take That still great? Quite simply….No
They are BETTER than great. Great does not even begin to describe how fantastically amazing they are, in every sense.
Take That have stood the test of time. They have just finished their biggest ever tour, touring their biggest selling ever album. As well as their fantastic new material, they still have the ability to sing and perform their old school classics. They put so much thought, effort and dedication into every little thing they do, its no wonder their fans from back in the day are still 100% behind them, as well as all the new fans they have accumilated since their estounding comeback.
Not only are they fantastically talented, they are also some of the nicest, most genuine, and most polite down to earth ‘celebrities’ you could ever wish to come across. They put bands like the Arctic Monkeys to shame.